PERSONS OF INTEREST AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
- THE GUARDIAN REVIEW
- Jan 23, 2004
- 1 min read
In the end, however, the most chilling subject participation at the festival took the form of absence. Persons of Interest, an unusual collaboration by dramatic filmmaker Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse, focuses attention on the horrifying fate of Arab residents rounded up under the National Security Act in the days after September 11. One at a time, they or their families appear on screen in a stripped-down, minimal set that resembles nothing so much as an unfurnished prison cell. With sadness, dignity, humour and bitterness, they and their relatives tell their stories. A postscript explains why they aren't in Park City, as it spells out the follow-up saga of imprisonment and deportation. Unlike CSA, this is no science fiction.
